Sydney CityRail Miscellany 6 - 1988
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- Super 8 ciné film (movie) and 35mm slides from 1988. (NB: films 1-5 are videotape from 1991)
Locations seen include: Sydney Cove, Circular Quay railway station & ferry harbour, a paddle steamer (short view, from the back), the harbour bridge, the Opera House, Milsons Point station, 'red rattler' plus other trains, I avoid falling out of a moving train which has open doors, and more!...
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The rattlers were great fun. Nothing like hanging out the door when the train was doing 80k's an hour on the fast line from Ashfield to the city. Yes, I did it and I am still alive!
LOL, I too hung out the open door, with one arm wrapped twice around a floor to ceiling hand rail! (my other hand / arm were holding the camcorder).This was filmed on a Friday; I did not realise that the trains were not used at weekends, as otherwise I'd have filmed more on that day.
Yes, and you could smoke in the trains too! Wow
Wow this took me back to my mid teens...and reminded me of how old I am haha. Thanks for the look back to a Sydney I knew and loved, not like today.
Thanks for watching and commenting but please note that age is is more than a number on a calendar. Somehow I have now become an 'old age pensioner' but am still in disbelief!
THANK YOU FOR HISTORY OF SYDNEY TRANSPORT IN 1988
Stunning to go back in time.
That video camera and still camera must have been top of the line back in the day, superb footage
thanks - Super VHS Panasonic MS50 camcorder with plug-in microphone - yes, at the time 'top of the range', and in some ways better than present-day camcorders (for instance, no 'rolling shutter' when filming passing trains from the side). The still image was an ordinary 35mm SLR camera.
brings back memories of hanging out of a red rattler when i was 11yrs old, one arm holding the handrail with my head out the door… good times.
30 ish years later I've still not told my parents about that train ride on the bridge where I was standing next to an open door whilst holding a handrail with one hand and my camcorder in the other hand.
So many memories thank you Simon
I've always been amazed how quickly the look & feel of Sydney changed between 1988 (in this video) and 1991 (your other videos) and not exactly for the better either. Your videos depict many Comeng Mk1 power cars still in Indian Red which I remember and by 1991 there were none. Also sadly gone by 1991 were the double yellow lines on the roads.
Richard Naylor to right Richard to right.
9:27 Old red trains no more, built in the 1920's served Sydney very well. In the 1970's they would call a train strike in the middle of the day and only have a few trains operating. The west bound train would arrive at Lidcombe in peak hour completely packed. No backpacks then just a simple sports bag for work. One arm through the handles and up on the shoulder both hands grab the hand rails on the outside and my toes on the step and hang on. Going through the bridges and signal boxes I would pull myself into the doorway squeezing people even tighter. Cant do that now.
great memories, wish I had a time machine
thanks, me too!
I cannot speak for Sydney, but no-one ever fell out when London had trains with hand operated sliding doors which in warm weather would be left open. I think its a case of common sense - if the door whilst the train is moving is open you use handrails and don't stand too close!
Nowadays everything is done on the basis of wrapping people in cotton wool, in case they are 'brain dead'.
btw, look out for my videotape film crossing the Harbour Bridge; I'm still here so obviously I was carefull !!!
citytransportinfo Better remove all doors and save up for lawsuits then!
Nice video. Thanks for documenting.
Thanks for watching and commenting!
That Was The Best Days It Is Good To See The Rattlers And The Tulloch Cars They Were Fun To Ride
Oh my gosh I remember how the S set looked like when I was a child of the 80’s
14:03 "First class" isn't the first thing that comes to mind when I ride the Tangaras...
Do i sense a furry train buff
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They weren't first class but they sure looked futuristic compared to what was before them.
Certainly not by modern standards, but in 1988 the a/c alone made them 'first class' IMO. The C sets a/c barely worked, and everything was non a/c, and thus hot. Except for the "Red Rattlers", which had wide opening windows, and hand opened doors.
@@DMack6464 owo
At least the G sets had seats that were... better? Like they were at least more comfortable and could flip to face either direction
@10.56 there on the road was one of 744 Leyland Leopard PSU-3 Buses built for the then Public Transport Commission in this shot it's one of the MK II's the last of which was withdrawn in 1989
Wow I can't believe they used to paint S set carriages the burgundy to match the red rattlers.
Sydney:
1900s to 1950s: Small buildings especially through circular quay ferries distance
1960s to 1980s: Started building taller buildings including the AMP made in the late 60s then a lot of tall buildings with Centerpoint Tower
1990s - 2010s: The 90s added glass buildings which makes Sydney what it's like today and the blue glass building in front of circular quay view was made in the late 80s to early 90s!
2020s+ Adding more newer buildings!
I forgot how dangerous those red rattlers were. lol. seeing open doors on a train while in motion in this day and age is frightening. lol.
They were fine, people just took care. The only worry I ever had was that a psychopath would push me out.
At first I was lamenting cine film in 88 when video cameras were widely available , but realised this has a dreamy quality to it videotape lacks and is quite unique in that era.
Good to see Sydney back to normal.
It's become a generic mish mash today.
As a Sydney sider, we scrapped the older red rattlers as we called them for newer Tangara trains which were air-conditioned because of safety issues but also because of their age
I love old trains. But one thing I could never get into was City Rail's practice of mixing a whole bunch of carriages together. Silver, red and white. Sometimes single deckers with double deckers. 5:42 is a multi-coloured monstrosity.
London did this too, with trains that were electrically compatible but built at different trains and visually different. This was the Q stock on the District line.
Sydney was growing faster than the railways could keep up at the time.
11:24 XC Falcon cab. My dad drove from the Legion base not far from there on Foveaux St Surry Hills in the 70s and I have the image etched out a line up of the rear of XC Falcon cabs around 1977 when he took me there one time as a four yo.
Great stuff. Loved the trains also.
The sweat set silver trains in the video were scrapped recently sad I remember them and red rattlers
So many memories! The tuscan red painted cars looked very smart I thought. And was that a Leyland Leopard bus I spotted?!
Awesome video.wow
I think you can still open the doors on the v sets manually as the train is going, I have seen a picture on instgram of a kid doing it
I can't believe how stupid those people are. If you're a non smoker, you can smell cigarette smoke a mile away. And they walk back in the carriage with their poker face on like nothing's up. Yeah mate, you're not fooling anyone. @GodBotherer1
15:00 How weird with the colour schemes on the carriages. You had silver carriages painted red and red carriages painted silver in 1 set.
Thats how they did things on the railways in those days in New South Wales.
Did Bondi Junction still have the new smell back then? like they do on the ECRL and the NWRL?
sorry but I do not recall - what I do remember was being peeved that I had to catch a bus, because the trains did not go the whole way
It probably did back in 79 with all the brand new black rubber tactile lino but I always remember it being well worn down by then.
Interesting you could walk on the Western side back then (now it is a dedicated cycleway), and there was no massive fence between the footpath and the train. And yes I think it's a shame, and potentially dangerous in case of a fire and people need to exit in a hurry, that we are deemed too irresponsible to decide for ourselves whether the doors can be open or closed.
The western side was a cycleway even in 1991, when I filmed this, however as I wanted to film the trains but did not have a bike there was no other option - I had to walk there!
Tangaras were released that year, why no Tangaras in this video?
In 1988 they were brand new and only a few existed. It is even possible that they were released after my visit.
Oh, so u were not there for the release, ok
Vele Korunoski by 1991 Tangaras were being rolled out to a point where the single deckers were confined mostly to peak hours but in 1988 they were just starting to roll them out after they underwent trials
10:20
looks like a 1960's video quality than a 1980's video, although this is a 1980's time. This does really look like a 1980's VHS quality
the camcorder was bought in 1989 - Panasonic MS50 S-VHS-C
Dude this is excellent quality for the day.
How much was the Harbour Bridge toll?
sorry but I did not drive so have no idea
1 dollar!
It was $1 all vehicles look at 7'31s in the video.
60c before 1987.
Hi there. I've sent you an email as we'd be more than glad to use a part of this footage in our documentary film - Would you be so kind to get back to me when you're available? Thank you indeed.
Hello, hopefully you have now seen my reply to your email, regards, Simon
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